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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>New Advent</title><description>These stories have been handpicked from blogs and news sites around the Web -- some Catholic, some not.</description><link>https://www.newadvent.org/news/feedburner.xml</link><atom:link href="https://www.newadvent.org/news/feedburner.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1513631456351215139</guid><category>Head</category><title>Catholic Campus Ministries Nationwide Report ‘Charlie Kirk Effect’ on Mass Attendance, New Inquirers...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266579/mass-attendance-up-at-various-colleges-in-wake-of-charlie-kirk-assassination</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In what some are calling “the Charlie Kirk effect,” people across the nation, including many college students who are not ordinarily churchgoers, have decided to go to church since the assassination last week of the conservative Christian political activist Charlie Kirk.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5752558753708260281</guid><category>Left</category><title>The Duchess of Kent attended my ordination at Westminster Cathedral. Today, on the day of her funeral, I pray for the repose of her soul...</title><link>https://rcdow.org.uk/news/a-funeral-and-some-fulfilment/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Hugh MacKenzie)</author><description>On Tuesday the funeral of Her Royal Highness Katharine Duchess of Kent will take place in the Cathedral. This will be the first Catholic royal funeral in modern history, made all the more historic by the presence of their Majesties King Charles and Queen Camilla. While the funeral ceremonies are a private, family affair, we chaplains here have the great privilege of concelebrating at the Requiem Mass. This has a particular significance for me because, by a strange providence, Her Royal Highness also attended my own ordination here in the Cathedral.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4417559971683486916</guid><category>Center</category><title>Prudent Stewards: A Reflection on the Upcoming 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time...</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/prudent-stewards-scott-hahn-reflects-on-the-twenty-fifth-sunday-in-ordinary-time</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Scott Hahn)</author><description>The steward in today’s Gospel confronts the reality that he can’t go on living the way he has been. He is under judgment. He must give account for what he has done. The exploiters of the poor in today’s First Reading are also about to be pulled down, to be thrust from their stations (see Isaiah 22:19). Servants of mammon, or money, they’re so in love with wealth that they reduce the poor to objects; they despise the new moons and sabbaths—the observances and holy days of God (see Leviticus 23:24; Exodus 20:8).</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6958085137431426622</guid><category>Left</category><title>People Are Knocking. Here’s How Parishes Can Respond.....</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/people-are-knocking-heres-how-parishes</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Timothy Glemkowski)</author><description>Early reports from across the country suggest that Catholic churches across the country were uniquely full this past Sunday. Social media and on-the-ground reporting indicates that the upswing was attributed to the impact of violence in our country in recent weeks, particularly the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In his recent address to the recently appointed bishops gathered in Rome, casually referred to as “Baby Bishop School,” Pope Leo XIV issued a challenging word</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-122628482853603592</guid><category>Center</category><title>Activist Priest Resigns Over New Syro-Malabar Liturgy...</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/activist-priest-resigns-over-new</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Luke Coppen)</author><description>A priest known for his social activism resigned as the vicar of a parish in India’s Ernakulam-Angamaly archeparchy Sunday after he was asked to celebrate the Syro-Malabar Church’s new uniform Eucharistic liturgy. Fr. Augustine Vattoly, the parish vicar of St. Augustine Church, Kadamakkudy, in Kerala state, announced his resignation Sept. 14 in an open letter to Archbishop Joseph Pamplany, the archiepiscopal vicar of Ernakulam-Angamaly.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4520920218889697638</guid><category>Left</category><title>How This Catholic School Event 67 Years Ago Changed Every School in America...</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/09/how-this-catholic-school-event-67-years.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In December 1958, a fire broke out at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago. Within minutes, the building was consumed, and 92 children along with three nuns tragically lost their lives. It remains one of the deadliest school fires in U.S. history. Yet, out of this disaster, came some of the most sweeping changes to building codes, fire safety standards, and school practices ever enacted...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5820414144985823704</guid><category>Center</category><title>‘Hey Culligan Man!’: How My Parents’ ‘Yes’ to Life Changed the World...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/hey-culligan-man</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>This year, I turn 90. This, of course, is no big deal, except that my age gives me an excellent vantage point from which to tell a true pro-life story. My father was Emmett J. Culligan, the renowned “Culligan Man” who founded the worldwide water-conditioning industry. He and my mother, Anna Bridget Harrington, both of strong midwestern Irish-Catholic stock, together raised seven children. I am the youngest and now the only one remaining. My father’s business success provided us with a home life that, while not extravagant, was very comfortable and incredibly enriching. But it was not always so.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7220893219550604701</guid><category>Left</category><title>‘No One Can Silence Their Voice’: Pope Leo XIV Honors Modern Martyrs at Ecumenical Service...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266569/no-one-can-silence-their-voice-pope-leo-xiv-honors-modern-martyrs-at-ecumenical-service</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV led an ecumenical commemoration of the martyrs and witnesses of faith of the 21st century at Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, stressing that “even though they have been killed in body, no one can silence their voice or erase the love they have shown.”</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4293967875148937491</guid><category>Center</category><title>In interview with Crux correspondent, Pope talks Ukraine, synodality, polarization, World Cup...</title><link>https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/09/in-interview-with-crux-correspondent-pope-talks-ukraine-synodality-polarization-world-cup</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In a lengthy and wide-ranging interview for a new biography of his life, Pope Leo XIV opens up his own background as history’s first U.S.-born pope and the first pope to hold Peruvian citizenship, jesting about who he would cheer for in a hypothetical World Cup, as well as his understanding of the papacy and current topics such as peace in Ukraine, his vision for synodality, and the polarization dividing so much of the world.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1577576289253148613</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo XIV Marks 70th Birthday at Sunday Angelus: ‘I Give Thanks to the Lord and to My Parents’...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266565/pope-leo-xiv-marks-70th-birthday-at-sunday-angelus-i-give-thanks-to-the-lord-and-to-my-parents</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>On Sunday, his 70th birthday, Pope Leo XIV presided at the recitation of the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square. From the early morning hours, the square had filled up with the faithful carrying banners, flags, and congratulatory signs to celebrate the pope’s milestone.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6667726986092073805</guid><category>Center</category><title> Brian Burch, New US Ambassador to the Holy See, Formally Presents Credentials to Pope Leo XIV...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266553/new-us-ambassador-to-the-vatican-presents-credentials-to-pope-leo-xiv</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV on Saturday morning received Brian Burch, the new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace for the formal presentation of his letters of credence. According to a U.S. embassy statement, the two men discussed the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, as well as "protecting religious freedom, the Vatican’s relationship with China, and the AI revolution."</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7761601049704877962</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo hints at Lampedusa visit in strong echo of Francis on migrants and refugees...</title><link>https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/09/pope-hints-at-lampedusa-visit-in-strong-echo-of-francis-on-migrants-and-refugees</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In another firm echo of the legacy of his predecessor, Pope Leo XIV released a nine-minute video message to the island community of Lampedusa on Friday, praising its efforts to welcome migrants and refugees and appearing to offer the prospect of an imminent papal visit.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1221903465697547180</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Brief, Servant's Life of Newly Canonized Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati...</title><link>https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/09/brief-servants-life-newly-sainted-pier-giorgio-frassati/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>On Sept. 7, 80,000 worshippers gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for Pope Leo XIV’s first two canonizations: Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati. During his homily, the pope addressed especially the young people, presenting the lives of these new saints—however brief—as guides for holiness. Pier Giorgio Frassati was born April 6, 1901, in Turin to a rich bourgeois family. His father, Alfredo, was a lawyer and ambassador, as well as founder and director of the newspaper...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3928039919965152124</guid><category>Left</category><title>A Note on Noticing the Glory...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/09/10/a-note-on-noticing-the-glory/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Francis X. Maier)</author><description>Colorado has dozens of ski resorts. The official count is 41. Vail and Aspen, Telluride, and Steamboat Springs get the lion’s share of attention. But little ski gems like Wolf Creek and Crested Butte abound. Our family favorite, in the 18 years we lived in Denver, was Arapahoe Basin. Tucked into the Continental Divide just 65 miles from our home, “A-Basin” was an easy drive and a laid-back local magnet. It offered a few beginner runs, but the resort was, and is, short on frills and has little patience with posers.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7004828428102588590</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Leo XIV to New Bishops: ‘Be Builders of Bridges’...</title><link>https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-09/pope-leo-calls-on-new-bishops-to-be-builders-of-bridges.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo tackled numerous themes on Thursday, 11 September, during a question-and-answer session at the conclusion of his audience with newly appointed bishops in the Synod Hall at the Vatican. According to a statement from the Holy See Press Office, Pope Leo continued his reflection on “the challenges and issues” new bishops “face at the beginning of a new ministry, such as fears, feelings of unworthiness, and the different expectations each had for their lives before their calling.”</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6967388183313792364</guid><category>Left</category><title>Leadership in the Wake of Tragedy: Reflection on the Assassination of Charlie Kirk...</title><link>https://epiphanycommunications.com/leadership-in-the-wake-of-tragedy-reflection-on-the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The assassination of Charlie Kirk is a sobering moment for anyone who believes in the power of dialogue, public engagement, and leadership—regardless of political affiliation. As a leadership coach, I view this not through the lens of ideology, but through the lens of human dignity, civic responsibility, and the culture we shape through our words and actions.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4092314171873797513</guid><category>Center</category><title>Charlie Kirk: A Joyful Warrior for Life...</title><link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/charlie-kirk-was-a-joyful-warrior-for-life/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Kathryn Jean Lopez)</author><description>“Why should I not be able to eliminate my ten-month-old baby?” Charlie Kirk invited an obnoxious, narcissistic young college student to give her best effort at making her “pro-choice” arguments. He was respectful. She was not. He was convicted about protecting the weak, unborn child, and tried to draw out of the girl why he didn’t have the right to kill a born child if she could kill her unborn child. She ignored him and said she had another question to ask instead of responding to his respectful response to her.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6734120672227487748</guid><category>Left</category><title>Charlie Kirk Is Dead. Just Stop Everything and Pray.....</title><link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/charlie-kirk-is-dead-just-stop-everything-and-pray/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Charlie Kirk is dead. I know you know that. But stop scrolling and clicking and arguing for a few minutes and think about it. If you pray, pray. Really, truly pray. If you are Catholic, get yourself in front of the Blessed Sacrament. (If you are not Catholic, feel free to, too.) There is no more powerful Presence on this earth. Acknowledge that. Acknowledge Him. If you don’t pray, just think about the fact Charlie Kirk died because he was speaking.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-938857565933339113</guid><category>Center</category><title>Charlie Kirk, Iryna Zarutska and the conversations we need to have...</title><link>https://www.osvnews.com/charlie-kirk-iryna-zarutska-and-the-conversations-we-need-to-have/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Elizabeth Scalia)</author><description>On Sept. 10, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, 31, was shot and killed during a speaking event in Utah. He leaves behind a wife and two very young children. Assassination is a tragedy for our country and for humanity. In this case it raises the flame beneath a pot that had already been simmering and is now dangerously close to boiling over. We must pray for peace, and for a reckoning that rids us of senseless violence once and for all.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5836587465875124482</guid><category>Left</category><title>How the legendary Motown was inspired by a Ford assembly line and magnified by the Beatles...</title><link>https://www.wgbh.org/music/2018-11-16/motown-the-history-of-a-hits-factory</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In 1965, the folks at one federal agency had an ambitious goal. They wanted to create something that was well ahead of its time: a music video. The agency was the Office of Economic Opportunity, part of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. The OEO helped co-produce a 90-minute TV special with CBS, urging American teenagers to find summer jobs and stay educated. But the video also showcased some of the era’s biggest stars, including Ray Charles, Tom Jones and the Supremes.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5003377107154695474</guid><category>Center</category><title>How Soft Religious Relativism Is Hardening Into Open Persecution...</title><link>https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/09/10/on-the-urgent-need-to-recognize-and-reject-religious-relativism/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Larry Chapp)</author><description>Way back in olden times, when I was still a professor of theology, one of the most ubiquitous attitudes amongst the students was that it does not matter which religion one practiced since “all religions are really saying the same thing in their essence”.Indeed, in this view, it does not even matter if one practices a religion at all since it is possible to be a “good person” and to be “spiritual” without any religious affiliation. Furthermore, such views are expressed with extreme confidence, as if there is no need to offer arguments for them since their reasonableness is beyond dispute.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7638974697663206087</guid><category>Left</category><title>In the Midst of Political Violence, Lift High the Cross...</title><link>https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-in-the-midst-of-political-violence-lift-high-the-cross</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Tom Hoopes)</author><description>After sobering news about political violence in America, this Sunday, Sept. 14, is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. Just as it did after Sept. 11, 2001, the Church offers the hard hope of the cross after tragedy. It is crucial in times like this to understand the glory of the cross — a glory which never takes away sadness, but answers pain with love. Here are five takeaways drawn from Sunday Readings columns at this site and the Extraordinary Story podcast.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8218059186690194342</guid><category>Center</category><title>I Knew Charlie Kirk. He Was a Man of Intelligence, Charm and Goodness of Heart.....</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/09/i-knew-charlie-kirk-he-was-man-of.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Bishop Robert Barron)</author><description>I first met Charlie Kirk about four years ago when I was in Phoenix for a speaking engagement. He reached out and invited me to breakfast. I was deeply impressed by him that day. He was a man of great intelligence, considerable charm, and real goodness of heart. I reconnected with him just last year, after I saw him debate twenty-five young people who were, to put it mildly, hostile to his views...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7923694301075851573</guid><category>Left</category><title>Ammunition in Charlie Kirk Shooting Engraved With Transgender and Antifascist Ideology, Sources Tell WSJ ...</title><link>https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/charlie-kirk-shot</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Conservative political activist and author Charlie Kirk has died after being shot on stage during an event at Utah Valley University. He was going back and forth with a student about mass shootings involving transgender people when he was shot, according to videos of the attack.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1287778480190476055</guid><category>Center</category><title>Seven Catholic Bishops Join Record-Breaking UK March for Life in London...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/march-for-life-uk-2025</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Edward Pentin)</author><description>This year’s March for Life UK saw its largest ever number of participants on Saturday, drawing together families and individuals from a diverse mix of backgrounds and nationalities as well as Catholic priests, religious, seven Catholic bishops and, for the first time, a message from the Holy Father. Held in a festive atmosphere and under warm, sunny September skies, organizers estimated 10,000 participants took part...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4294622682409112859</guid><category>Left</category><title>A Nightly Ritual for Married and Unmarried...</title><link>https://life-craft.org/a-nightly-ritual-for-married-and-unmarried/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (John Cuddeback)</author><description>What Aquinas writes about dreams is something we have all observed, and it calls for closer consideration: “those things which have occupied a man’s thoughts and affections while awake recur to his imagination while asleep.” This implies that our nighttime dreams are not wholly beyond our sway. Indeed, it grounds a very practical approach to improving our dreams. The point here is not to attempt what is impossible...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4757321101757956675</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Lost Art of Catholic Cinema...</title><link>https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/the-lost-art-of-catholic-cinema/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Daniel McInerny)</author><description>When so many Catholic and other Christian filmmakers are working so admirably and achieving so much popular and evangelical success—success, one hastens to add, in an industry whose power players are inimical to everything these filmmakers stand for—it might well seem churlish to point out any limitation in their work. But when their work contributes, however unwittingly, to the diminution, if not outright abolition, of an entire tradition of filmmaking, then something needs to be said.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4381640124719678609</guid><category>Left</category><title>ESPN’s Favorite College Football Game-Day Traditions...</title><link>https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46015760/our-favorite-college-football-game-day-traditions</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>There's nothing quite like the energy, emotion, pageantry and good ol' fashioned fun that takes place every fall weekend at college football games. There are time-honored traditions that date back many decades. There are century-old marching bands and pulsating techno hits. There are rampaging animals, covered wagons, antique cars and even storied rocks. There are quaint customs and there are controversies -- it wouldn't be college football without controversy, right?</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6930529345390030894</guid><category>Center</category><title>2025 Fall Foliage Forecast Map: ‘Autumn Is a Second Spring When Every Leaf Is a Flower’...</title><link>https://smokymountains.com/fall-foliage-map</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The 2025 Fall Foliage Map is the ultimate visual planning guide to the annual progressive changing of the leaves. While no tool can be 100% accurate, this tool is meant to help travelers better time their trips to have the best opportunity of catching peak color each year...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6336725726424358097</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo XIV at Wednesday General Audience: ‘Jesus Shows Us Crying Out Is Not Weakness But an Act of Hope’...</title><link>https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-09/pope-jesus-shows-us-crying-out-is-not-weakness-but-act-of-hope.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Looking at the culmination of Jesus’s earthly life, Pope Leo reflected on His death on a cross. Continuing his General Audience catechesis on the crucifixion and death of Jesus, the Pope stressed that Jesus did not die in silence. “He does not fade away gradually, like a light that burns out, but rather he leaves life with a cry.” That cry, Pope Leo explained, is more than the body surrendering, “but the final sign of a life being surrendered.” Before this, Jesus offers a question...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6036600712221976115</guid><category>Center</category><title>Why are we obsessing over Cracker Barrel logos? Let’s make America serious again.....</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/make-america-serious-again-cracker-barrell</link><author>null@newadvent.org (George Weigel)</author><description>Having spent most of July and August off the grid while teaching in Poland and vacationing in Canada, I missed a lot of the Great Cracker Barrel Logo Fracas. But from what little I have observed of this absurd “debate” over whether removing a white man from the company logo constituted another corporate cave-in to wokery, which was followed by the equally inane “debate” over whether Cracker Barrel’s restoration of that figure to its logo was a further step toward the end of democracy...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4899455434171849572</guid><category>Left</category><title>Could Leo take a ‘Vatican II’ approach to Traditionis custodes?</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/could-leo-take-a-vatican-ii-approach</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Ed Condon)</author><description>Supporters of the extraordinary form of the liturgy have welcomed the announcement that the traditional Latin Mass will be celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica as part of an annual traditionalist pilgrimage to Rome in October. The Mass, expected to be celebrated according to the 1962 Missal, will be the first time that rubric is used in St. Peter’s and in connection with the annual event since 2021...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7870629561125152381</guid><category>Center</category><title>Vatican Announces New Feast Days for Sts. Carlo Acutis (Oct. 12) and Pier Giorgio Frassati (July 4)...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266441/vatican-establishes-feast-days-of-st-carlo-acutis-and-st-pier-giorgio-frassati</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The Catholic Church will commemorate the liturgical memorial of St. Carlo Acutis on Oct. 12 and of St. Pier Giorgio Frassati on July 4. The two young men were canonized Sept. 7 by Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. In the case of St. Carlo Acutis, the Italian teenager who died in 2006 and was beatified in Assisi in October 2020, his feast day was set for Oct. 12, coinciding with the anniversary of his death from fulminant leukemia at the age of 15.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1579444258122781886</guid><category>Left</category><title>Traditionalists Rejoice That Cardinal Burke Will Be Allowed to Celebrate TLM at St. Peter’s on Oct. 25...</title><link>https://apnews.com/article/old-latin-mass-traditionalists-pope-81721a76fbbd03cf020b2cfbb8041ae1</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Traditionalist Catholics celebrated news Monday that the Vatican under Pope Leo XIV had given them permission to celebrate the old Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica during their upcoming pilgrimage. U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke, a figurehead of the conservative and traditionalist wing of the church, will celebrate the Mass on Oct. 25, the pilgrimage organizers said...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1877222005569516681</guid><category>Center</category><title>Seeing What a Saint Is Like: Malcolm Muggeridge and Mother Teresa...</title><link>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/09/seeing-saint-malcolm-muggeridge-mother-teresa-david-deavel.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (David Deavel)</author><description>Even in their deaths, saints often manifest the humility of Christ. I remember vividly watching one of the major news networks on September 5, 1997, the day Mother Teresa died at the age of 87. Whichever one it was had invited on the enfant terrible of New Atheist punditry, Christopher Hitchens, to discuss her life. Hitch, who had penned an attack on the Albanian nun’s work, titled naughtily The Missionary Position, was given the green light to summarize his book...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7502534763322060194</guid><category>Left</category><title>Tim Kaine Comments on Rights and Religion: Senator Needs Remedial Civics...</title><link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/tim-kaine-is-unable-to-say-what-makes-america-beautiful/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>He’s the senator from Virginia whom the Democrats offered as their vice-presidential candidate not that long ago; he’s presumably one of the best they’ve got. In fact, he’s so good that he claims to have a better idea about the origin of our rights than does the Declaration of Independence. So I apologize for what Tim Kaine said at a recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6108100517117191763</guid><category>Center</category><title>Mastering AI: Benedictine College Launches New Center as Carlo Acutis Is Canonized...</title><link>https://media.benedictine.edu/mastering-ai-benedictine-launches-new-center-as-carlo-acutis-is-canonized</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XVI asked for the Church to respond to the Artificial Intelligence revolution, so Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, has created the Center for Technology and Human Dignity, promoting Catholic digital and biomedical ethics. The director for the center is Mariele Courtois, a Benedictine College theologian, bioethicist, and a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education’s research group on artificial intelligence.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5158228741848376721</guid><category>Left</category><title>Unconditional Alliance: Do Not Be Too Proud to Call Upon Our Savior’s Constant Help...</title><link>https://parishableitems.com/2025/09/07/unconditional-alliance/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Victor Feltes)</author><description>At the Last Supper, when Jesus told his disciples “one of you will betray me,” all of them replied “Surely, it is not I, Lord,” except for Judas. Judas answered, “Surely it is not I, rabbi (or teacher).” Jesus Christ must be more than merely our teacher. He insists on being our supremely-loved Lord...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5382655320872991366</guid><category>Center</category><title>Diocese Investigates Sainthood Cause of Tom Vander Woude, Virginia Father Who Gave His Life to Save His Son...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266401/diocese-investigates-sainthood-cause-of-virginia-father-tom-vander-woude-who-saved-son</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Suffocation awaited a young man with Down syndrome when the eroded surface of a toxic sewage tank crumbled beneath his feet. Joseph Vander Woude would have died alone in the cramped tank surrounded by toxic fumes, but his father jumped in, pushing him toward the surface with his last breath. Even as his lungs filled with toxic gases, Tom called out to the farmhand who was trying to pull Joseph out. “You pull, I’ll push,” he said.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-778039675516142187</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo gives first exclusive interview to Crux correspondent for new bio...</title><link>https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/09/leo-gives-first-exclusive-interview-to-crux-correspondent-for-new-bio</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Penguin Random House announced Monday that notoriously media-shy Pope Leo XIV has given his first-ever papal interview to Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen as part of her new biography of the pontiff. Titled ‘Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the XXI Century,’ the book will be published by Penguin Peru in Spanish Sept. 18 and will be available in bookstores nationwide.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1411816197023214948</guid><category>Center</category><title>St. Maria Goretti, Mother Seton, and Other Jubilee Saints...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/09/07/jubilee-saints/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Raymond de Souza)</author><description>Popes give special attention to those they canonize in Jubilee years. The joint canonization of Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis today marks a highlight of Jubilee 2025, and perhaps a high point of Leo’s pontificate. For the Jubilee 1900, Pope Leo XIII canonized two saints, both with fairly wide popular devotion, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle and Rita of Cascia...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1290984484506265763</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo XIV proclaims Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati Saints...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266389/live-updates-canonization-of-carlo-acutis-and-pier-giorgio-frassati-the-first-saints-of-pope-leo-xiv</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV proclaimed the Italians Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis as saints of the Church on Sunday.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6277307330461745101</guid><category>Center</category><title>What Did the Pope Say to Father James Martin?</title><link>https://tmattingly.substack.com/p/crossroads-what-did-the-pope-say</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Terry Mattingly)</author><description>People who watch Rome closely know that who a pope promotes and who he punishes is far more important than what he says in statements to the press or even, in some cases, what is released in public documents. Who gets a red hat in the College of Cardinals and who does not? Who is appointed to posts that shape and guide projects (the word synodality is relevant) that could, potentially, change church doctrine?</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3984231105819364455</guid><category>Left</category><title>What Kind of God Demands Animal Sacrifices?</title><link>https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/what-kind-of-god-demands-animal-sacrifices</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Why in the world did God command the Jewish people to offer animal sacrifices? Not only do they appear inhumane and gross to us twenty-first-century Americans, but the Bible seems to be inconsistent. After all, Scripture pushes for the fair treatment of humans (“love your enemies”), yet not for animals. They get killed left and right.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6230993346860727812</guid><category>Center</category><title>Why is OCIA Growing in the United States?</title><link>https://catholicmissionarydisciples.com/news/why-is-ocia-is-growing-in-the-usa</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Marcel LeJeune)</author><description>Earlier this week I spoke to an OCIA (formerly RCIA) class of 170 or so college students at St. Mary’s Catholic Center at Texas A&M (the campus ministry I used to run). You might be amazed by that number, because it is a large class, but here is the real shocker - that is less than ½ of the students in the OCIA program! The class I spoke to started last spring (plus some other students joined after a summer intensive to catch them up). There is a larger class which met for the first time in a different room and they are at about 250 students, for a total of 420+ or so! The number of students could possibly go even higher. </description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8749806994466752235</guid><category>Left</category><title>Why Do Hammerhead Sharks Have A Hammerhead?</title><link>https://www.iflscience.com/why-do-hammerhead-sharks-have-a-hammerhead-80573</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Hammerhead sharks look like a fish that’s had its face flattened by a cartoon mallet and decided to just roll with it. They’re freaks of nature, haters might say, but these marine marvels are actually masters of adaptation, equipped with bizarre yet brilliant features that make them some of the ocean’s most efficient predators.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4373254214507187789</guid><category>Center</category><title>How the Sony Hawk-Eye system could revolutionize the NFL...</title><link>https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/new-nfl-sony-hawk-eye-measuring-system-124946587</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>A cutting-edge virtual measurement system will make its NFL debut when the 2025 season kicks off in less than two weeks, to help make the most precise ball placements the gridiron has ever seen.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-132035607743806947</guid><category>Left</category><title>Life After Death: Learning from Socrates...</title><link>https://life-craft.org/life-after-death-learning-from-socrates/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Socrates’s worldview never ceases to amaze me. As a Christian, I find the depth of his insight surprising, but more to the point, inspiring. If without divine revelation he discovered and lived out such convictions, how much more should I. There are several notable examples, and here I will consider one of his convictions about life after death. That some great pagans came to conclusions that are like or close to what God supernaturally revealed...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8217311564179537109</guid><category>Center</category><title>Duchess of Kent, First Senior Royal to Become Catholic in 300 Years, Dies at 92...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/pentin-duchess-of-kent-dies</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, who became the first senior British royal to be received into the Catholic Church since the 17th century, has died at the age of 92. In a statement, Buckingham Palace said that the duchess died peacefully on Thursday evening at her Kensington Palace home, surrounded by her family. Renowned for her natural charm, compassion for the sick and downtrodden, and commitment to serving others...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-530853688507039151</guid><category>Left</category><title>King Charles III Becomes First Monarch to Visit St. John Henry Newman’s Birmingham Oratory...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/king-charles-iii-visits-newman-s-oratory</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>King Charles III was “very engaged, very interested” and “exceedingly kind” when on Wednesday he toured the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Birmingham, becoming the first English monarch to visit the priestly community St. John Henry Newman established there in 1848. The provost of the Birmingham Oratory, Oratorian Father Ignatius Harrison, said it was a very brief but joyful visit that was on “His Majesty’s own initiative.” His first engagement after the summer holidays...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3960021350899664484</guid><category>Center</category><title>This Sunday, Jesus’ Words Are Shocking, Until You Realize Who He Is Describing...</title><link>https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-jesuss-words-are-shocking-until-you-realize-who-he-is-describing</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>This Sunday’s Gospel starts with Jesus’s startling statement: “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” That sounds harsh — but in the life of a saint like Mother Teresa, you can see what it means. First of all, the use of “hate” here doesn’t mean “detest” — it’s a Hebrew idiom that means “prioritize lower.” Americans do the same thing today when we say “I love pizza and hate salad” when we really mean we prefer pizza.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4404537224870435543</guid><category>Left</category><title>5 Bible Passages That Point to Purgatory...</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/5-bible-passages-which-point-to-purgatory</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Clement Harrold)</author><description>A common Protestant claim is that the Catholic doctrine of purgatory is nowhere to be found in the Bible. But is this true? Since the Bible assures us that nothing unclean shall enter heaven (see Rev 21:27; cf. Heb 12:14), this implies that souls who die in a state of imperfect friendship with God must undergo some kind of final purification prior to their entry into eternal life...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2210295195119862279</guid><category>Center</category><title>Wife of Catholic Nobel Laureate Ales Bialiatski, Imprisoned Without Sacraments, Appeals for Help From Catholics Worldwide...</title><link>https://www.osvnews.com/wife-of-nobel-laureate-ales-bialiatski-urges-pope-leo-to-back-jailed-catholic-leader/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Supporters of a Catholic winner of the Nobel Peace Prize have urged Western church leaders to take up his cause four years after he was detained and jailed in Belarus on trumped-up charges. “Since our last short meeting in November 2022, I haven’t received any letters or been allowed to speak to him by telephone,” said Natallia Pinchuk, wife of imprisoned Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1636546899507277829</guid><category>Left</category><title>Here Comes the Bride — and the Groom: Why Catholic Couples Are Walking Into Their Wedding Mass Together...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/bride-and-groom-process-together-catholic-marriage</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Jonathan Liedl)</author><description>At the start of an Aug. 23 Catholic wedding in St. Paul, Minnesota, all eyes turned to the back of the church for that iconic moment: the bride’s procession down the aisle with her father, before he hands her off to her husband-to-be. Except when the back doors of St. Mary’s Church opened for the big reveal, Liz Holman wasn’t standing with her dad...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1363653882063602771</guid><category>Center</category><title>Trans terrorist murder of Christian school children will no longer be memory-holed...</title><link>https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/trans-terrorist-murder-christian-school-children-will-no-longer-be-memory-holed/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Peter Wolfgang)</author><description>What a difference a “vibe shift” makes. That was one of the thoughts that ran through my head when I heard about the transgender-identifying terrorist who murdered Catholic school children as they were worshiping at a Mass opening their school year in Minneapolis. Of course, that was not the only thing that ran through my mind. Many thoughts did. The same thoughts that, I’m sure, so many others had.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-424909853939198086</guid><category>Left</category><title>Prayer Helps Us Avoid Stupidities...</title><link>https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/praying-to-avoid-stupidities/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Jerry Pokorsky)</author><description>esus says, “Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” Humility is a virtue that avoids arrogant self-estimation. Integral prayer helps us to know our limitations. The Gospel reveals Jesus’ ceaseless prayers to the Father. Jesus is meek and humble of heart. Our prayer affirms that we depend upon God. God is God, and we are his servants. He loves us. We’re smart, but not as smart as we think we are. When we recognize our limitations before God and others, we paradoxically discover our freedom.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1919102620140376344</guid><category>Center</category><title>The 25 Best Pizza Places In America...</title><link>https://www.theinfatuation.com/all/guides/best-pizza-in-america</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>There’s always going to be someone who insists that the best pizza they’ve ever had was actually at a Super Mario-themed sleepover they had when they were eight. And while we don’t want to desecrate anyone’s childhood memories, we will also gently push back on that idea. Everyone here’s old enough to admit that some combinations of sauce, cheese, and bread are—in fact—objectively better than others. (And if you’re still eight, congratulations on reading above grade-level right now.)</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6417449982308863241</guid><category>Left</category><title>Where Do You Fall on ESPN’s Sports Misery Index?</title><link>https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/45344992/sports-misery-index</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Whether there’s confetti falling from your team’s last title or you’re still waiting to see your first, you probably have an idea of how satisfied – or miserable – you are as a fan. But could you put a number on it?</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8311079419566775276</guid><category>Center</category><title>St. Augustine’s Confessions: A Simplified Reading (in 13 Points and a Bonus)...</title><link>https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/augustines-confessions-a-simplified-reading-in-13-points-and-a-bonus/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The Confessions is a peculiar work. Every time you try to say what it is, it seems to escape your categorization. People most readily characterize it as an autobiography. True, maybe, if you are used to teaching only Books 1-10. But then there are those awkward last three books. What are they doing there? They each take up in their turn verses from the Hexameron, the narrative of the six days of creation in Genesis 1:1-2:1. Looking backward from these books...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7686606931246786828</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Meets Israeli President Isaac Herzog at Vatican, Discusses ‘Tragic’ Situation in Gaza...</title><link>https://www.osvnews.com/pope-meets-israeli-president-discusses-tragic-situation-in-gaza/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>As Israeli military operations in Gaza continued, Pope Leo XIV met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the Vatican. The meeting Sept. 4 came just a week after Pope Leo appealed again for Israel and Hamas to stop the violence and for Hamas to release the hostages it has held since attacking Israel in October 2023. With the pope and with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, Herzog discussed “the political and social situation in the Middle East ... where numerous conflicts persist, with particular attention to the tragic situation in Gaza,” the Vatican said.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1951956375792903142</guid><category>Center</category><title>There’s a new eparch in the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church — what is that?</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/theres-a-new-eparch-in-the-italo</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV on Saturday appointed Fr. Raffaele De Angelis as Eparch of Piana degli Albanesi of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, located in Sicily. The appointment comes after a five-year vacancy in the see. In February 2020, the last eparch, Bishop Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro, was appointed as secretary of the then-Congregation for Eastern Churches. De Angelis, born in 1979, was ordained a priest of the Eparchy of Lungro in 2006 after studies at the Gregorian University, obtaining a doctorate in moral theology.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-186753805413665842</guid><category>Left</category><title>The risk of forgiveness is that you will no longer be a slave to anger...</title><link>https://knowingisdoing.org/blog/risk-forgiveness</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Marlon De La Torre)</author><description>When confronted with the opportunity to forgive someone, would you? Some may say that it depends on the gravity of the act or circumstance. Others may argue that it depends on the person's disposition. The spiritual and carnal drama involved in offering forgiveness to someone can be a burden when the person hurt is someone you love, like your wife, husband, child, relative, or close friend. Even more, when the act is heinous or violent in nature, it results in psychological, emotional, or spiritual drama...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6809551945451859497</guid><category>Center</category><title>Counting the Cost: A Reflection on the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time...</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/counting-the-cost-scott-hahn-reflects-on-the-twenty-third-sunday-in-ordinary-time</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Like a king making ready for battle or a contractor about to build a tower, we have to count the cost as we set out to follow Jesus. Our Lord today is telling us up front the sacrifice it will take. His words aren’t addressed to His chosen few, the Twelve, but rather to the “great crowds”—to anyone, to whoever wishes to be His disciple. That only makes His call all the more stark and uncompromising. We are to “hate” our old lives, to renounce all the earthly things we rely upon...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1243878426736978888</guid><category>Left</category><title>The First Christians Were Not Socialists...</title><link>https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/no-the-first-christians-were-not-socialists</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Trent Horn)</author><description>Some critics say not only that Catholics can be socialists, but that they should be socialists because that was how the first Christians lived. They cite Acts 2:45, which says, “all who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need.” But when we examine the biblical and historical evidence a different picture emerges...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6057889968011636978</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Best Burger in Every State...</title><link>https://www.rd.com/list/best-burger/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Whether thick and juicy, piled high with toppings or oozing with cheese, the best burgers in America prove that nothing hits the spot quite like the classic dish.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7154885599428546494</guid><category>Left</category><title>DarkSky International announce the winners of the 2025 Capture the Dark photography contest...</title><link>https://darksky.org/what-we-do/events/photo-contest/2025-winners/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>They say a photograph is worth a thousand words. With over 2,200 entries, from over 22 countries, together we’ve created a powerful story of the night: revealing its wonder, exploring its mysteries, and inviting others to join us in our journey to protect it.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6717702615472067875</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Smell of a Skunk and the Odor of Sanctity...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/08/31/the-smell-of-a-skunk-and-the-odor-of-sanctity/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>I was speaking to one of my Capuchin confreres recently who had just returned from visiting his family. He remarked that there were a number of skunks around his sister’s home. These little creatures can be quite cute. Skunks are notorious, however, for their ability to spray a liquid with a strong, unpleasant scent. God, providentially, in a manner that only He could have ingeniously conceived, gave this ability to skunks in order to protect them from predators...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8548623478263421066</guid><category>Left</category><title>At Wednesday Audience, Pope Leo XIV Raises Alarm on Sudan: ‘Stop This Humanitarian Catastrophe’...</title><link>https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-09/pope-leo-xiv-sudan-appeal-tarasin-humanitarian-emergency.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>“Dramatic news is coming out of Sudan, particularly from Darfur. In El Fasher, numerous civilians are trapped in the city, victims of famine and violence,” Pope Leo XIV said during his General Audience on Wednesday. The Pope called for a humanitarian response for the hundreds of thousands of suffering people there. His appeal included prayers for victims of a natural disaster, in which a devastating mudslide triggered by floods this week killed over a thousand people in Sudan’s Marra Mountains in the east of the country.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-510663841340584325</guid><category>Center</category><title>I Taught My 3-Year-Old to Read ‘The Hobbit.’ You Can Too. You Just Need to Pretend Like You’re in the 1700s...</title><link>https://www.thefp.com/p/i-taught-my-three-year-old-to-read-tutoring-education-culture?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Surprisingly, there exists an agreed-upon best way to educate children. The problem is that this best way is unacceptable. That’s because it is profoundly unfair, privileging those at the very top of the socioeconomic ladder. This superior method of education was well-known historically, and its effects are still seen in education research today: one-on-one tutoring.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8471292781859462734</guid><category>Left</category><title>Charles the Bald, the News, and Facing Reality...</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/charles-the-bald-the-news-and-facing</link><author>null@newadvent.org (J.D. Flynn)</author><description>Happy Valentine’s Day! Valentine’s Day? Yep. Today’s the customary feast of St. Valentine, Bishop of Strasbourg, who is believed to have been martyred on September 2nd, some year in the early fourth century. Apart from his martyrdom, there’s not much we know about Valentine — except that he’s one of the dozen or so Valentin/Valentine/Valentinos revered as saints of the patristic period, some of whom have been celebrated alongside the more famous Roman martyr-priest Valentine, of February 14.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2521684118368560440</guid><category>Center</category><title>What Jiu-Jitsu Taught Me About the Devil and Humility...</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/09/what-jiu-jitsu-taught-me-about-devil.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Chris Stefanick)</author><description>What if I told you the most powerful spiritual weapon isn't talent and charisma but humility! In this episode, I’m diving deep into the one virtue that makes you spiritually unconquerable. We’ll talk jiu-jitsu (yes, seriously), the wisdom of the Desert Fathers, the ground game of Jesus, and why humility isn’t weakness, it’s the key to strength, peace, and spiritual victory. If you’re chasing success, struggling in your marriage, or battling pride and discouragement, this episode is for you...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-868576112952630758</guid><category>Left</category><title>What Is the Battle of Armageddon?</title><link>https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/what-is-the-battle-of-armageddon</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Jimmy Akin)</author><description>In popular speech, Armageddon has become a term for the final military battle of world history. It also has an extended meaning and can refer to any devastating conflict, whether or not it would be the final one. Thus, during the Cold War, people feared that World War III would bring about a “nuclear Armageddon,” even if the human race survived. The basis for this idea is found in a passage in the book of Revelation that describes...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7135705870353610687</guid><category>Center</category><title>Is Belief Believable?</title><link>https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/is-belief-believable/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Christopher Kaczor)</author><description>I love to teach a course called “The God of Faith and Reason.” It is always a pleasure to speak with college students about some of the most significant questions people can ask. What can we know? Does God exist? How do faith and reason relate? I teach an ideologically diverse group of students, ranging from Catholics who attend Mass every day to atheists with blue hair. Ninety percent of my students are in neither category...</description></item> </channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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